DVD LAUNCH: Pictured (left to right) are June Stubbs, co-ordinator of Middlesbrough Community Inclusion Service; Lynda Lord, Middlesbrough Community Inclusion Service; and Cleveland's Police and Crime Commissioner Barry Coppinger. A DVD highlighting the harrowing experiences people with learning disabilities have suffered has been launched to raise awareness of the problem.
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A disabled Norwich woman has spoken of her shock at being sent a map and told to find her own way 45 miles to Ipswich to find out if she is fit to work.
Forty-two train stations in England, Scotland and Wales will receive a share of a £100 million government fund to improve access for disabled passengers, Lib Dem Rail Minister Baroness Kramer announced today (29 April 2014).
A lack of beds is forcing mental health patients in England to seek treatment in other NHS facilities up to hundreds of miles away, BBC research has found. The number of patients travelling to seek emergency treatment has more than doubled in two years - from 1,301 people in 2011-12 to 3,024 in 2013-14. Earlier this year one patient was admitted to a deaf unit as no beds were available anywhere in the country.